My IoB post has attracted the most ever comments along the lines of "why is this so long, tldr <favorite compression>". It's interesting. Kinda fascinating. We've been in tldr/compression mode so long, we've forgotten that elaboration has its own motivating logic and demand.
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This post is in the old refactored-perceptions style rather than the new constructions-in-magical-thinking style. The modus operandi *is* to elaborate along a new vector after compressing along an old one.
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An episode of Rick and Morty (froopyland) plays this tension for laughs, where Rick and Beth figure out what's happened in a telegraphic 10 second exchange, but the other characters in the situation *still* lay it all out in detail
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For a decade+ I've been writing things smart people have been complaining is "too long" and that I should shorten to broaden appeal. The compression fetishists genuinely don't get that there's a type of reader out there who likes a sort of tapestry of implications rolled out
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The elaboration *is* the game. Just like every Hallmark Christmas romance movie has the same tweet-length plot, but an entire business exists based on people watching hours of the stuff
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